This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

Why make disciples? Because heaven and hell exist, and the end of the world is coming.

Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

Disciple making also involves teaching people to obey all that Christ has commanded us. Now some might say, "Isn't that what preachers are supposed to do?" And in one sense, the answer to this question is yes. God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally. At the same time, he has commanded every follower of Jesus to teach his Word relationally.

And while we stand with conviction and courage, we must live with compassion. Amid a world with massive social needs around us, ranging from desperate poverty and orphan crises and millions of girls being trafficked for sex, to the degradation of marriage and the abortion of babies, we need to speak and act with selfless love on all of these issues.

In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.